GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
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| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
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| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |